Animal Experience
edited by Leon Niemoczynski and Stephanie Theodorou
Introduction: Consciousness and Emotions in the Natural World
This "living" book about life explores the nature and meaning of the emotional lives of nonhuman animals, focusing on how those lives are communicated to other living creatures (such as human beings) via affective states. By examining the emotional lives of animals and how they are communicated, we hope to re-examine how human beings interact with, and relate to, other living creatures that are capable of experiencing emotional lives.
The property of emotion, in both human and nonhuman species, implies a level of internal conscious experience which supports and includes related cognitive activity. Insight into animal emotion can be useful for understanding the evolutionary development we share with animals in terms of the common "brain-mind." This locus of cognitive activity in centralized nervous systems reveals to us that changes in affect accompany and enable communication and expression, facial and voice recognition of other individuals, and decision-making. These traits, in turn, suggest that most philosophically (and perhaps scientifically) traditional moral boundaries between humans and nonhuman animals may require serious rethinking. We therefore hope to address what impact a better understanding of the emotional lives of animals might have upon animal welfare and upon our deeply embedded beliefs concerning the nature of animal minds in general. (more...)
1. The Emotional Lives of Animals
- Duncan Campbell
- Podcast Interview with Marc Bekoff and Jane Goodall – The Ten Trusts: Celebrating the Anima in All
- Leon Niemoczynski and Stephanie Theodorou
- "The Emotional Lives of Animals: Interview with Leon Niemoczynski and Stephanie Theodorou" by Joe Gelonesi, broadcast internationally on the radio program The Philosopher's Zone, ABC National Radio, Australia (2014)
- Michael Tobias
- A Review of Animal Minds: Awareness, Emotions and Heart by Marc Bekoff
- Jaak Panksepp
- Affective Consciousness in Animals
- Ram Vimal
- Attention and Emotion
- Michael Mendl, Oliver H. P. Burman, and Elizabeth S. Paul
- An Integrative and Functional Framework for the Study of Animal Emotion and Mood
- Manisha Rai
- Monkey Business: Emotion and Consciousness in Primates
2. Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation: The Mental/Psychological Lives of Animals
- Jaak Panksepp
- Affective Neuroscience of the Emotional BrainMind: Evolutionary Perspectives and Implications for Understanding Depression
- Alexandra G. Rosati and Brian Hare
- Chimpanzees and Bonobos Exhibit Emotional Responses to Decision Outcomes
- Thierry Steimer
- Animal Models of Anxiety Disorders in Rats and Mice: Some Conceptual Issues
- Joshua M. Plotnik, Frans B. M. de Waal, and Diana Reiss
- Self-recognition in an Asian Elephant
- Barbara King - How Animals Grieve
3. Broadcasting Consciousness in Animals: Cognition and Communication
- Marian Stamp Dawkins
- Animal Minds and Animal Emotion
- Marina Scheumann, Anna-Elisa Roser, Wiebke Konerding, Eva Bleich, Hans-Jürgen Hedrich and Elke Zimmermann
- Vocal Correlates of Sender-identity and Arousal in the Isolation Calls of Domestic Kitten (Felis silvestris catus)
- Andrew J Tate, Hanno Fischer, Andrea E Leigh, and Keith M Kendrick
- Behavioural and Neurophysiological Evidence for Face Identity and Face Emotion Processing in Animals
- Public Radio International with Carol Hills
- Bottlenose Dolphins Whistling On A First Name Basis
4. The Impact of Animal Psychology on our Understanding of Animal Welfare
- Leonor Galhardo and Rui F Oliveira
- Psychological Stress and Welfare in Fish
- Nichola M Brydges and Victoria A Braithwaite
- Measuring Animal Welfare: What Can Cognition Contribute?
- Jung Hwan Jeon, Jun Ik Song, Doo Hwan Kim
- A Note on Acoustic Analysis of Dairy Calves’ Vocalizations at 1 Day after Separation from Dam
- David Fraser
- Understanding Animal Welfare
5. The Ethics of Human Interrelations with Animals: What Do We Know Now and How Does it Affect Our Interactions with Animals?
- Marc Bekoff
- ’Good Welfare’ Isn’t ‘Good Enough
- Mikaela Ciprian, Laura D'Olimpio, Ram Pandit, Dominique Blache
- An Analysis of Ethics and Emotion in Written Texts about the Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes
- Thomas G. Kelch
- The Role of the Rational and the Emotive in a Theory of Animal Rights
- Kendal Shepherd
- The Role of the Companion Animal Veterinary Surgeon in Behavioural Husbandry
- Agostino Sevi, Donato Casamassima, Giuseppe Pulina, Antonio Pazzona
- Factors of Welfare Reduction in Dairy Sheep and Goats
6. Animal Emotion and Cognition: Philosophical Considerations
Ancient Approaches
- Pythagoras
- Mary Ann Violin, “The First Animal Rights Philosopher”
- Plato
- “Creation of the World Animal” in The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Timaeus
- Aristotle
- The History of Animals
- On the Soul
Medieval Approaches
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Judith Barad, “Aquinas’ Inconsistency on the Nature and the Treatment of Animals”
Modern Approaches
- René Descartes
- Discourse on Method (Part V)
- J. Cottingham, 'A Brute to the Brutes?': Descartes' Treatment of Animals
- John Locke
- Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Book II. 27, Identity, Matter, and Bodies)
- Edwin McCann, "Locke on Identity: Matter, Life, and Consciousness"
19th Century Approaches
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- “Comparative Anatomy” from On the Will in Nature
- “Animal Magnetism and Magic” from On the Will in Nature
- On the Basis of Morality
- G.W.F. Hegel
- The Philosophy of Nature
- Charles Darwin
- On the Expressions of Emotions in Man and Animals
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- “The Law of Mind”
- Robert Lane, “Peirce-onhood: Persons as Semiotic Animals”
- William James
- “On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings”
- John Dewey
- Experience and Nature
20th and Early 21st Century Approaches
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Susan Armstrong-Buck, “Nonhuman Experience: A Whiteheadian Analysis”
- Amos Yong, “Personal Selfhood and Human Experience in Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism”
- Steven Shaviro, “Pulses of Emotion”
- Charles Hartshorne
- Judith Barad, “Review of The Metaphysics of Animal Rights”
- L. Keeling, “Feeling as a Metaphysical Category: Hartshorne from an Analytical View”
- Bruno Latour
- "What is Given in Experience?"
- Isabelle Stengers
- "Reclaiming Animism"
- Philippe Descola - All Kinds of Animals